History of Foldabots Toy Book

Foreword

Recently my old computer got broken and here I am waiting patiently for a miracle to come. While most of my blogs are already typed on a Word Document, it's a little hard to retrieve them unless I test that hard drive to another unit. But for now, I am making an impromptu blog after I came across a video on YouTube.

And that's about the very first Foldabots Toy Book.

If you have any idea what I'm talking about, here's a link to one of my older blogs.
http://ejsotto.blogspot.com/2012/12/2012-year-ender-project-foldabots.html

Now onto what I knew about it...

THE ORIGIN

Foldabots was first released in the May 2006 issue of K-Zone Philippines. Created by Jomike Tejido and it's been in run for 8 years now. With countless original characters made by Tejido from 2006 to 2012 including sets which can combine into a 'gestalt' (which is a Transformers review term for 'combiners' which we also use to describe these big guys.) There are six Toy Books already released and the seventh one expected to be published this November, in which most of these books usually is launched at that time.

November 15, 2008, the first Foldabots Toy Book was launched on that day. It includes 13 characters plus a set of game cards which corresponds to each of them. In addition, one card has been added for the combiner Elementron which was the only combiner in the book.

Trivia: There are four Toy Books which had game cards and Buhatron is the only one with a card from the fourth volume. In fact, there were 14 in the first one, 11 in Toy Book 2, and 6 in 3. All in all, there are 32 cards released and no new cards were added in the next two volumes.

Even before Toy Book 1 was released, there was this blind box set where it contains pre-made toys and it had metallic print which it was very hard to get one until to this day. The collection was separated into two different sets, one is the Elementron set where you have to get the four to get the combined Foldabot. To those who got TB1 like me (who got it after TB2) you'll notice some of the parts were dropped and changed to make them close to the original toys released in 2007. The other set composed of five various characters ranging from Patrol, Astig, Kislap, Liyab, and Karera. At first you think this set sucks? Think again. Because in each of the five Foldabots, they also include a piece of another Foldabot to put together, which is Metrotren.

Trivia: The first five Toy Books were launched at Powerbooks at Greenbelt in Makati, which at that time I never came because none of my family knows this place. Toy Book 6 however, was launched in a new location which of course was very familiar because the mall used to be this ice cream house and a plant. The place was Robinsons Magnolia in Quezon City, just across Aurora Boulevard.

CONCLUSION

While to those who had completed Likastron last June, Congratulations to all of us! Hope we can complete Trosonator as well before TB7. And furthermore, to those who are a little curious about when the first Toy Book was launched and some facts to feed your knowledge on Jomike Tejido's Foldabots, this blog will be a good example to you all.